738
614
Ask HN: Is all of FAANG like this?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23917131
6 years ago
698
397
Breach exposed more than one million DNA profiles on a major genealogy database
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/hackers-gedmatch-dna-privacy
654
171
First Ever Image of a Multi-Planet System Around a Sun-Like Star Captured by ESO
https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2011/?lang
650
189
Experimental blood test detects cancer up to four years before symptoms appear
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experimental-blood-test-detects-cancer-up-to-four-years-before-symptoms-appear/
498
121
Fawkes: Image “Cloaking” for Personal Privacy
http://sandlab.cs.uchicago.edu/fawkes/
488
398
Y Combinator has lost its soul: A YC founder's perspective
https://twitter.com/AdamNeumannsCoS/status/1285651161723342848
459
187
Design Docs at Google
https://www.industrialempathy.com/posts/design-docs-at-google/
423
138
1SecondPainting: Generate abstract paintings in one click
https://1secondpainting.com/
418
401
Who gets invited to the party?
https://medium.com/@cyril0allen/who-gets-invited-to-the-party-246a1ba6849a
390
92
Show HN: MineSweeper implemented in 100% CSS and HTML – no JavaScript
https://github.com/propjockey/css-sweeper#readme
365
109
Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend (2016)
https://programmingisterrible.com/post/139222674273/write-code-that-is-easy-to-delete-not-easy-to
330
186
Apple Security Research Device Program
https://developer.apple.com/programs/security-research-device/
307
110
Amazon Ion
https://amzn.github.io/ion-docs/
296
313
Online classes are not worth cost of full tuition
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2020/07/20/online-classes-are-not-worth-cost-of-full-tuition.html
266
94
Mathematicians discover a perfect way to multiply (2019)
https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-discover-the-perfect-way-to-multiply-20190411/
256
329
Slack Files EU Competition Complaint Against Microsoft
https://slackhq.com/slack-files-eu-competition-complaint-against-microsoft
242
41
Show HN: React Guitar – A guitar component for React
https://react-guitar.com
237
Trump administration establishes $75M quantum computing centers
https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/508305-trump-administration-establishes-75-million-quantum-computing-centers
218
The trauma of Facebook’s content moderators
https://restofworld.org/2020/facebook-international-content-moderators/
213
71
A React implementation of Spectrum, Adobe’s design system
https://react-spectrum.adobe.com/react-spectrum/
212
27
Data Visualization Catalog
https://datavizcatalogue.com/index.html
202
28
Semgrep: Lightweight static analysis for many languages
https://github.com/returntocorp/semgrep
198
47
LWN pays $300 for a well-written article from new authors
https://lwn.net/op/AuthorGuide.lwn
163
Why is CSS the way it is?
https://increment.com/frontend/ask-an-expert-why-is-css-the-way-it-is/
197
50
Brain connectivity levels are equal in all mammals, including humans: study
https://www.aftau.org/press-release---brain-connectivity---july-20-2020
194
155
Twilio: Someone broke into our AWS S3 silo, added 'non-malicious' code to JS SDK
https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/21/twilio_sdk_code_injection/
185
Ask HN: Resources to start learning about quantum computing?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23914992
69
Flash Game History
http://www.flashgamehistory.com/
164
76
Deep learning to translate between programming languages
https://ai.facebook.com/blog/deep-learning-to-translate-between-programming-languages
154
New Features in Gnuplot 5.4
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/826456/2ea90dd464e104d5/
96
ListenBrainz moves to TimescaleDB
https://blog.metabrainz.org/2020/07/22/listenbrainz-moves-to-timescaledb/
148
58
BBS Graphics History: Pretty awesome, until the web showed up
https://tedium.co/2020/07/21/bbs-graphics-history-ripscrip-naplps/
146
42
In Bangladesh, the majority of e-commerce now happens on Facebook
https://restofworld.org/2020/bangladesh-economy-runs-on-facebook/
145
33
Show HN: UI Playbook – A documented collection of UI components
https://uiplaybook.dev
144
73
Swiss police automated crime predictions but has little to show for it
https://algorithmwatch.org/en/story/swiss-predictive-policing/
131
90
The United Nations of Uniqlo
https://www.economist.com/1843/2020/07/06/the-united-nations-of-uniqlo
126
291
Q2 2020 Update
https://ir.tesla.com/static-files/f41f4254-f1cc-4929-a0b6-6623b00475a6
4
Debugging Incidents in Google's Distributed Systems
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3404974
119
Japan top court tells Twitter to disclose retweeters' info
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/22/national/japan-top-court-tells-twitter-disclose-retweeters-info/
114
84
Launch HN: Reploy (YC S20) – Instant fullstack staging environments for web apps
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23917956
112
Show HN: Gitern is a Git host for hackers
https://gitern.com
178
Consider getting a “DIY” degree online instead of a traditional CS major
https://www.pashabitz.com/posts/undergrad-altenative/
111
182
IPv4, IPv6, and a sudden change in attitude
https://apenwarr.ca/log/20200708
63
New KDE Slimbook launched with Ryzan-4000 series processor
https://www.neowin.net/news/new-kde-slimbook-launched-with-ryzan-4000-series-processor
104
103
The AN-225: How the Cold War created the world's largest airplane
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/an-225-worlds-largest-airplane/index.html
19
Show HN: Biff – Self-hosted Firebase alternative for Clojure
https://findka.com/biff/
45
Mathematicians will never stop proving the Prime Number Theorem
https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-will-never-stop-proving-the-prime-number-theorem-20200722/
37
Understand seed round dynamics in Silicon Valley
https://thevalley.substack.com/p/understand-seed-rounds-dynamics-in
Terminal Server on a Budget
https://blog.lasseter.org/posts/2020/07/terminal-server-on-a-budget/
259
Swedish epidemiology boss says questioned Covid-19 strategy seems to be working
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-sweden-strategy-idUSKCN24M25L
89
167
The Rise and Rise of JSON (2017)
https://twobithistory.org/2017/09/21/the-rise-and-rise-of-json.html
88
Defining the ’90s Music Canon
https://pudding.cool/2020/07/song-decay
85
29
Bacteria and Colon Cancer
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/07/22/bacteria-and-colon-cancer
81
25
Twitter Hacking for Profit and the LoLs
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/twitter-hacking-for-profit-and-the-lols/
77
15
Exploring Fully Homomorphic Encryption
https://vitalik.ca/general/2020/07/20/homomorphic.html
53
People loved Nikola but not its warrants
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-07-21/people-loved-nikola-but-not-its-warrants